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It's hard to overstate how fucking scummy the credit reporting world is. Equifax invented the business in 1899, when, as the Retail Credit Company, it used private spies to track queers, political dissidents and "race mixers" so that banks and merchants could discriminate against them:

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♲ @pacanukeha@mstdn.ca: Pluralistic: At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy (16 August 2023) - @pluralistic

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